Democracy category: 2250 books
Popular Struggle and Democracy in Scandinavia
1700-Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book focuses on popular struggles in Denmark, Norway and Sweden from 1700-2015, and how popular struggle in the form of hunger riots, tax rebellions, petition drives, strikes, demonstrations, public meetings and social movements paved the way for the introduction and development of...
Euroscepticism, Democracy and the Media
Communicating Europe, Contesting Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
This volume focuses on the relationship between the media and European democracy, as important factors of EU legitimacy. The contributors show how the media play a crucial role in making European governance accountable, and how it can act as an intermediate link between citizens and their elected...
by Jeff Noonan
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
This book sets out the most influential theories of democracy (liberal-egalitarian, deliberative, and cosmopolitan) and argues that they fail to adequately comprehend the cause of politically meaningful inequality on the one hand and the security state on the other. The private and exclusive control...
Ordinary Democracy
Sovereignty and Citizenship Beyond the Neoliberal Impasse
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
While various democratic theorists have looked at particular instances of recent social movements (Occupy or the Arab Spring, for example), none have yet attempted a more general theoretical take on what it is that relates all of these movements and what that running thread can tell us about democratic...
Is Non-Western Democracy Possible?
A Russian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
This book, with theoretical and practical analyses of comparative political systems of Eastern countries (Asia and Africa), their political process and political cultures, describes and analyses the influence of political culture on political process in the Eastern world. It gives readers an opportunity...
Reading as Democracy in Crisis
Interpretation, Theory, History
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. Chapters covering Plato and Derrida; G.W.F. Hegel; Karl Marx; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Robert Penn Warren; Louise Rosenblatt; Theodor Adorno,...
Centripetal Democracy
Democratic Legitimacy and Political Identity in Belgium, Switzerland, and the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of political identity formation. Partisan modes of political representation in the context of multifaceted electoral and direct...
by John Medearis
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
John Medearis argues that democracies face challenges which go beyond civic lethargy and unreasonable debate. Democracy is inherently a fragile state of affairs because citizens create the very institutions that overwhelm them. Hostile threats are the product of their own collective activities, and preserving democracy will always entail struggle.
Deliberative Politics
Essays on Democracy and Disagreement
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 1999
The banner of deliberative democracy is attracting increasing numbers of supporters, in both the world's older and newer democracies. This effort to renew democratic politics is widely seen as a reaction to the dominance of liberal constitutionalism. But many questions surround this new project. What...
What Kind of Democracy?
Participation, Inclusiveness and Contestation
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The broad expansion of non-electoral political participation is considered one of the major changes in the nature of democratic citizenship in the 21st century. Most scholars – but also governments, transnational and subnational political institutions, and various foundations – have adopted the...
Polder Politics
The Re-Invention of Consensus Democracy in the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This title was first published in 2001: Under the name of the "polder model", the Dutch model of democracy has received favourable attention from journalists, administrators and political leaders. This book presents a thorough analysis of Dutch democracy as a specimen of consensus democracy....
by Erik Mobrand, Clark W. Sorensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Although South Korea is widely heralded as a successful new democracy—buttressed by a politically engaged public—elections have done less than expected to force political parties to reorganize their elitist structures. In Top-Down Democracy in South Korea, Erik Mobrand demonstrates that political...
Social Democracy and the Crisis of Equality
Australian Social Democracy in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
This book analyses social democratic parties’ attempts to tackle inequality in increasingly challenging times. It provides a distinctive contribution to the literature on the so-called ‘crisis’ of social democracy by exploring the role of equality policy in this crisis. While the main focus...
Deliberative Democracy and Social Movements
Transition Initiatives in the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Deliberative democracy is increasingly central in democratic theory and its concepts are employed in a growing number of fields, including social movement studies and environmental politics. At the same time, contemporary citizen activism seems to feature some forms of engagement that resonate with...